CRIMINAL CODE

15. Section 319 of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subsection (7):

Internet

(8) For the purposes of this section

    (a) the international computer net known as the Internet is a public place, and

    (b) placing material on the Internet in a form in which it may, by any direct or indirect means, with or without the use of a code or password or the payment of a fee, be recovered by another person, is a communication of a statement, regardless of whether or not it is shown that any person did so recover it.